After dinner I walked back to my hotel along Bernauer Strasse, paralleling the former Berlin Wall. Walking past the wall gave me time to reflect on the changes that have ocurred during my life time. I was born in 1961, shortly before the wall was built, I am very to glad to see Berlin recovering from this tragedy.
The trip to Berlin for OEDEM has been a very good thing. The OpenEmbedded developers are excellent people, both on a personal and a professional level. The level of technical skill work ethic rivals anything I have seen in my various careers. I strongly recommend people find an open source project to participate in . Even if you are not a coding god, open source projects need users, testers, people to help track problems and most importantly, people that can write.
Many of the issues discussed at OEDEM could be traced back to inadequate documentation.
Wednesday, I had to catch a plane at 0930, this meant getting up at 0600. The airport was a combination of a subway and bus trip that went smoothly. The connection at Frankfurt was short, but went smoothly. I arrived at the gate as the plane was boarding. There was some chaos as the USAir staff rechecked our passports and walked us through the security questions again. Then I had to get new boarding passes. Finally made it on the plane.
The Airbus A330 has an on demand inflight video system. This made watching movies on the plane tolerable.
Back in Charlotte I had dinner and found out there is free wireless in Charlotte now. This made up for the ridiculous security line I had to go through after clearing customs. Note, if you plan to go through security in Charlotte, add one hour.
Before going home, I stopped by my office to pick up my thesis after my advisor made comments. And finally headed to bed.
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